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Pacifist Invasions is about what happens to the francophone lyric in the translingual Franco-Arabic context. Drawing on lyric theory comparative poetics and linguistics it demonstrates how Arabic literature and Islamic scripture pacifically invade French in the poetry of Habib Tengour (Algeria) Edmond Jabes (Egypt) Salah Stetie (Lebanon) Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisia) and Ryoko Sekiguchi (Japan). Pacifist Invasions deploys side-by-side comparisons of classical Arabic literature Islamic scripture and the Arabic commentary traditions in the original language against the landscapes of modern and contemporary French and francophone literature poetry and poetics. Detailed close readings reveal three generic modes of translating Arabic poetics into the French lyric and the mechanisms by which poets foreignize French as they engage in a translational and intertextual relationship with the history and world of Arabic literature.Through fine-grained analyses of poetry translations commentaries chapbooks art books and essays Pacifist Invasions proposes a cross-cultural history and rereading of French and francophone literatures in relation to the transversal translations and transmissions of classical Arabic poetics. It offers a translingual comparative repositioning of the field of francophone postcolonial studies along a fluid translational Franco-Arabic axis. The vision of the postfrancophone succeeds the point of exhaustion within the French poetic sociolect with wide-ranging and surprising implications for the study of French and francophone poetry.

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Pacifist Invasions is about what happens to the francophone lyric in the translingual Franco-Arabic context. Drawing on lyric theory comparative poetics and linguistics it demonstrates how Arabic literature and Islamic scripture pacifically invade French in the poetry of Habib Tengour (Algeria) Edmond Jabes (Egypt) Salah Stetie (Lebanon) Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisia) and Ryoko Sekiguchi (Japan). Pacifist Invasions deploys side-by-side comparisons of classical Arabic literature Islamic scripture and the Arabic commentary traditions in the original language against the landscapes of modern and contemporary French and francophone literature poetry and poetics. Detailed close readings reveal three generic modes of translating Arabic poetics into the French lyric and the mechanisms by which poets foreignize French as they engage in a translational and intertextual relationship with the history and world of Arabic literature.Through fine-grained analyses of poetry translations commentaries chapbooks art books and essays Pacifist Invasions proposes a cross-cultural history and rereading of French and francophone literatures in relation to the transversal translations and transmissions of classical Arabic poetics. It offers a translingual comparative repositioning of the field of francophone postcolonial studies along a fluid translational Franco-Arabic axis. The vision of the postfrancophone succeeds the point of exhaustion within the French poetic sociolect with wide-ranging and surprising implications for the study of French and francophone poetry.

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